30 day study of the words of Paul ================================= Day 8 1CO 06:11 And such were some of you: but ye are washed, but ye are sanctified, but ye are justified in the name of the Lord Jesus, and by the Spirit of our God. 1CO 06:12 All things are lawful unto me, but all things are not expedient: all things are lawful for me, but I will not be brought under the power of any. 1CO 06:13 Meats for the belly, and the belly for meats: but God shall destroy both it and them. Now the body [is] not for fornication, but for the Lord; and the Lord for the body. 1CO 06:14 And God hath both raised up the Lord, and will also raise up us by his own power. 1CO 06:15 Know ye not that your bodies are the members of Christ? shall I then take the members of Christ, and make [them] the members of an harlot? God forbid. 1CO 06:16 What? know ye not that he which is joined to an harlot is one body? for two, saith he, shall be one flesh. 1CO 06:17 But he that is joined unto the Lord is one spirit. 1CO 06:18 Flee fornication. Every sin that a man doeth is without the body; but he that committeth fornication sinneth against his own body. 1CO 06:19 What? know ye not that your body is the temple of the Holy Ghost [which is] in you, which ye have of God, and ye are not your own? 1CO 06:20 For ye are bought with a price: therefore glorify God in your body, and in your spirit, which are God's. 1CO 07:01 Now concerning the things whereof ye wrote unto me: [It is] good for a man not to touch a woman. 1CO 07:02 Nevertheless, [to avoid] fornication, let every man have his own wife, and let every woman have her own husband. 1CO 07:03 Let the husband render unto the wife due benevolence: and likewise also the wife unto the husband. 1CO 07:04 The wife hath not power of her own body, but the husband: and likewise also the husband hath not power of his own body, but the wife. 1CO 07:05 Defraud ye not one the other, except [it be] with consent for a time, that ye may give yourselves to fasting and prayer; and come together again, that Satan tempt you not for your incontinency. 1CO 07:06 But I speak this by permission, [and] not of commandment. 1CO 07:07 For I would that all men were even as I myself. But every man hath his proper gift of God, one after this manner, and another after that. 1CO 07:08 I say therefore to the unmarried and widows, It is good for them if they abide even as I. 1CO 07:09 But if they cannot contain, let them marry: for it is better to marry than to burn. 1CO 07:10 And unto the married I command, [yet] not I, but the Lord, Let not the wife depart from [her] husband: 1CO 07:11 But and if she depart, let her remain unmarried, or be reconciled to [her] husband: and let not the husband put away [his] wife. 1CO 07:12 But to the rest speak I, not the Lord: If any brother hath a wife that believeth not, and she be pleased to dwell with him, let him not put her away. 1CO 07:13 And the woman which hath an husband that believeth not, and if he be pleased to dwell with her, let her not leave him. 1CO 07:14 For the unbelieving husband is sanctified by the wife, and the unbelieving wife is sanctified by the husband: else were your children unclean; but now are they holy. 1CO 07:15 But if the unbelieving depart, let him depart. A brother or a sister is not under bondage in such [cases]: but God hath called us to peace. 1CO 07:16 For what knowest thou, O wife, whether thou shalt save [thy] husband? or how knowest thou, O man, whether thou shalt save [thy] wife? 1CO 07:17 But as God hath distributed to every man, as the Lord hath called every one, so let him walk. And so ordain I in all churches. 1CO 07:18 Is any man called being circumcised? let him not become uncircumcised. Is any called in uncircumcision? let him not be circumcised. 1CO 07:19 Circumcision is nothing, and uncircumcision is nothing, but the keeping of the commandments of God. 1CO 07:20 Let every man abide in the same calling wherein he was called. 1CO 07:21 Art thou called [being] a servant? care not for it: but if thou mayest be made free, use [it] rather. 1CO 07:22 For he that is called in the Lord, [being] a servant, is the Lord's freeman: likewise also he that is called, [being] free, is Christ's servant. 1CO 07:23 Ye are bought with a price; be not ye the servants of men. 1CO 07:24 Brethren, let every man, wherein he is called, therein abide with God. 1CO 07:25 Now concerning virgins I have no commandment of the Lord: yet I give my judgment, as one that hath obtained mercy of the Lord to be faithful. 1CO 07:26 I suppose therefore that this is good for the present distress, [I say], that [it is] good for a man so to be. 1CO 07:27 Art thou bound unto a wife? seek not to be loosed. Art thou loosed from a wife? seek not a wife. 1CO 07:28 But and if thou marry, thou hast not sinned; and if a virgin marry, she hath not sinned. Nevertheless such shall have trouble in the flesh: but I spare you. 1CO 07:29 But this I say, brethren, the time [is] short: it remaineth, that both they that have wives be as though they had none; 1CO 07:30 And they that weep, as though they wept not; and they that rejoice, as though they rejoiced not; and they that buy, as though they possessed not; 1CO 07:31 And they that use this world, as not abusing [it]: for the fashion of this world passeth away. 1CO 07:32 But I would have you without carefulness. He that is unmarried careth for the things that belong to the Lord, how he may please the Lord: 1CO 07:33 But he that is married careth for the things that are of the world, how he may please [his] wife. 1CO 07:34 There is difference [also] between a wife and a virgin. The unmarried woman careth for the things of the Lord, that she may be holy both in body and in spirit: but she that is married careth for the things of the world, how she may please [her] husband. 1CO 07:35 And this I speak for your own profit; not that I may cast a snare upon you, but for that which is comely, and that ye may attend upon the Lord without distraction. 1CO 07:36 But if any man think that he behaveth himself uncomely toward his virgin, if she pass the flower of [her] age, and need so require, let him do what he will, he sinneth not: let them marry. 1CO 07:37 Nevertheless he that standeth stedfast in his heart, having no necessity, but hath power over his own will, and hath so decreed in his heart that he will keep his virgin, doeth well. 1CO 07:38 So then he that giveth [her] in marriage doeth well; but he that giveth [her] not in marriage doeth better. 1CO 07:39 The wife is bound by the law as long as her husband liveth; but if her husband be dead, she is at liberty to be married to whom she will; only in the Lord. 1CO 07:40 But she is happier if she so abide, after my judgment: and I think also that I have the Spirit of God. 1CO 08:01 Now as touching things offered unto idols, we know that we all have knowledge. Knowledge puffeth up, but charity edifieth. 1CO 08:02 And if any man think that he knoweth any thing, he knoweth nothing yet as he ought to know. 1CO 08:03 But if any man love God, the same is known of him. 1CO 08:04 As concerning therefore the eating of those things that are offered in sacrifice unto idols, we know that an idol [is] nothing in the world, and that [there is] none other God but one. 1CO 08:05 For though there be that are called gods, whether in heaven or in earth, (as there be gods many, and lords many,) 1CO 08:06 But to us [there is but] one God, the Father, of whom [are] all things, and we in him; and one Lord Jesus Christ, by whom [are] all things, and we by him. 1CO 08:07 Howbeit [there is] not in every man that knowledge: for some with conscience of the idol unto this hour eat [it] as a thing offered unto an idol; and their conscience being weak is defiled. 1CO 08:08 But meat commendeth us not to God: for neither, if we eat, are we the better; neither, if we eat not, are we the worse. 1CO 08:09 But take heed lest by any means this liberty of yours become a stumblingblock to them that are weak. 1CO 08:10 For if any man see thee which hast knowledge sit at meat in the idol's temple, shall not the conscience of him which is weak be emboldened to eat those things which are offered to idols; 1CO 08:11 And through thy knowledge shall the weak brother perish, for whom Christ died? 1CO 08:12 But when ye sin so against the brethren, and wound their weak conscience, ye sin against Christ. 1CO 08:13 Wherefore, if meat make my brother to offend, I will eat no flesh while the world standeth, lest I make my brother to offend. 1CO 09:01 Am I not an apostle? am I not free? have I not seen Jesus Christ our Lord? are not ye my work in the Lord? 1CO 09:02 If I be not an apostle unto others, yet doubtless I am to you: for the seal of mine apostleship are ye in the Lord. 1CO 09:03 Mine answer to them that do examine me is this, 1CO 09:04 Have we not power to eat and to drink? 1CO 09:05 Have we not power to lead about a sister, a wife, as well as other apostles, and [as] the brethren of the Lord, and Cephas? 1CO 09:06 Or I only and Barnabas, have not we power to forbear working? 1CO 09:07 Who goeth a warfare any time at his own charges? who planteth a vineyard, and eateth not of the fruit thereof? or who feedeth a flock, and eateth not of the milk of the flock? 1CO 09:08 Say I these things as a man? or saith not the law the same also? 1CO 09:09 For it is written in the law of Moses, Thou shalt not muzzle the mouth of the ox that treadeth out the corn. Doth God take care for oxen? 1CO 09:10 Or saith he [it] altogether for our sakes? For our sakes, no doubt, [this] is written: that he that ploweth should plow in hope; and that he that thresheth in hope should be partaker of his hope. 1CO 09:11 If we have sown unto you spiritual things, [is it] a great thing if we shall reap your carnal things? 1CO 09:12 If others be partakers of [this] power over you, [are] not we rather? Nevertheless we have not used this power; but suffer all things, lest we should hinder the gospel of Christ. ~~~~~~